CVE-2025-58005: DriCub Driving School SSRF Vulnerability

CVE-2025-58005 Overview

CVE-2025-58005 is a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability [CWE-918] affecting the SmartDataSoft DriCub driving school WordPress theme. The flaw exists in all versions up to and including 2.9 and permits unauthenticated attackers to coerce the server into issuing HTTP requests to attacker-chosen destinations. Because the vulnerable request originates from the WordPress host, adversaries can reach internal network resources otherwise unreachable from the internet. Patchstack tracks the issue under its WordPress theme vulnerability database.

Critical Impact
Unauthenticated attackers can abuse the DriCub theme to probe internal services, enumerate metadata endpoints, and pivot inside the hosting environment through server-issued HTTP requests.

Affected Products

SmartDataSoft DriCub dricub-driving-school WordPress theme
All versions from initial release through 2.9
WordPress sites deploying the vulnerable DriCub theme in production

Discovery Timeline

2025-09-22 - CVE-2025-58005 published to NVD
2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2025-58005

Vulnerability Analysis

The DriCub theme accepts a user-controllable URL parameter and passes it to a server-side HTTP request routine without validating the destination. The vulnerability is network-reachable and requires no authentication or user interaction, though attack complexity is high. The scope is changed, meaning the server's outbound request can affect resources beyond the vulnerable component. Confidentiality and integrity impacts are limited but non-zero, matching a mid-range severity profile for SSRF classes. Patchstack documents the flaw in its WordPress DriCub Theme SSRF Vulnerability Report.

Root Cause

The theme fails to sanitize or restrict a URL input before invoking a server-side HTTP client such as wp_remote_get or curl_exec. No allowlist, DNS resolution check, or private-IP filter is applied. This matches the classic SSRF pattern described in CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery, where server-issued requests inherit trust boundaries unavailable to external clients.

Attack Vector

An attacker sends a crafted request to the vulnerable DriCub endpoint containing a URL parameter pointing to an internal address such as http://127.0.0.1:8080/admin, http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/ on cloud instances, or an internal service host. The WordPress server fetches the URL and, depending on response handling, may echo content back to the attacker or trigger side effects on the target. Repeated requests can enumerate internal ports, discover services behind the perimeter, and, on cloud-hosted sites, expose instance metadata credentials.

No public proof-of-concept exploit is currently listed, and the EPSS probability remains low. However, WordPress themes and plugins are routinely mass-scanned by opportunistic actors once advisories publish.

Detection Methods for CVE-2025-58005

Indicators of Compromise

Outbound HTTP requests from the WordPress PHP worker to internal RFC1918 ranges, 127.0.0.1, or 169.254.169.254
Web server access logs showing requests to DriCub theme endpoints with URL-like query parameters
Unexpected DNS lookups from the web host targeting attacker-controlled domains used for SSRF verification
Cloud audit logs recording metadata service (IMDS) access from the WordPress instance

Detection Strategies

Inspect access.log entries for requests to DriCub theme paths containing http://, https://, or IP addresses inside query parameters
Correlate PHP-FPM outbound network connections with inbound HTTP requests to identify SSRF attempts
Deploy web application firewall rules that flag URL parameters containing internal address ranges or metadata hostnames

Monitoring Recommendations

Alert on any WordPress process initiating connections to 169.254.169.254, link-local, or loopback addresses
Track outbound connections from web-tier hosts to non-standard internal ports such as 6379, 9200, 2375, and 8500
Monitor the WordPress plugins and themes directory for versions of DriCub at or below 2.9

How to Mitigate CVE-2025-58005

Immediate Actions Required

Inventory WordPress sites for the DriCub dricub-driving-school theme and confirm the installed version
Deactivate the theme on any site running version 2.9 or earlier until a vendor patch is applied
Restrict outbound network egress from WordPress hosts to only required destinations
Disable or require session tokens on the cloud instance metadata service (IMDSv2 on AWS)

Patch Information

At the time of publication, no fixed version is listed in the NVD record. Site operators should monitor SmartDataSoft channels and the Patchstack advisory for an updated release above version 2.9 and apply it as soon as available.

Workarounds

Block requests to vulnerable theme endpoints at the WAF or reverse proxy layer using signatures that detect URLs in query parameters
Enforce egress firewall rules that deny WordPress workers access to RFC1918, loopback, and link-local ranges
Apply a virtual patch through Patchstack or an equivalent WordPress security plugin if immediate removal is not feasible
Rotate any cloud credentials that may have been exposed via the metadata service if SSRF activity is observed

bash

# Example nginx rule to block URL-like SSRF payloads targeting DriCub endpoints
location ~* /wp-content/themes/dricub-driving-school/ {
    if ($args ~* "(https?%3A|https?:|127\.0\.0\.1|169\.254\.169\.254|localhost)") {
        return 403;
    }
}